Sharon Thesen

Sharon Thesen’s most recent book of poetry is Oyama Pink Shale (Anansi, 2011). Other books include The Good Bacteria (Anansi, 2006), A Pair of Scissors (Anansi, 2000), and News & Smoke: Selected Poems (Talonbooks, 1999). She is the editor, with Ralph Maud, of Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff: A Modern Correspondence (Wesleyan, 1999); and she was an editor of The Capilano Review when she lived and taught in Vancouver, BC. She now lives near Kelowna, BC, and teaches in the Department of Creative Studies at UBC’s Okanagan campus.

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